This glowing emerald nebula seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is reminiscent of the glowing ring wielded by the superhero Green Lantern. This view shows part of the very active star-forming ...

New Hubble images show the Crab Nebula is still expanding and evolving nearly 1,000 years after its original supernova ...

Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing gas expelled by low-intermediate mass stars late in their lives can come in ...

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A color rendition of NGC 6302, the Butterfly Nebula, created from black-and-white exposures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2019 and 2020. In the violet-colored regions, strong stellar winds ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for five long years—an infrared photo of two dying stars we'd requested from ...

Stunning cosmic clouds and stars are captured in this image of Melotte 15 showing the newborn star cluster in the core of the so-called Heart nebula. Astrophotographer Jaspal Chadha of London took ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed infrared portrait of a dying star’s ghostly remains: a planetary nebula nicknamed the “Exposed Cranium” for its skull-like silhouette. The new ...

This strange cosmic cloud is called “the hand of God,” but it looks more like a Tyrannosaurus rex to us. The reddish aura surrounding the cloud of gas and dust called CG4 comes from hydrogen gas, ...

A new analysis from NASA using the Hubble Space Telescope shows that the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova recorded in ...